Technology Architect (TEMPORARY)

As a Senior Principal at Slalom, you will help clients accelerate large scale technology transformation by turning decades-old mainframe code into agile, cloud-native systems. This role blends deep systems understanding of z/OS with modern cloud, DevOps, and AI-assisted engineering practices. You’ll work across multiple domains, from code analysis and business-logic extraction to automated refactoring and re-platforming helping enterprises transition mission-critical workloads to hyperscaler infrastructure.What you will do:* Understand, extractand document business logic from mainframe applications.* Modernize and refactor legacy code using automated transformation tools and AI coding agents.* Reimagine monolithic systems into cloud-native microservices and event-driven architectures.* Build, containerize, and deploy workloads to AWS (or other hyper scaler platforms).* Prototype modernization accelerators and proof-of-concepts using LLMs, code analysis tools, and custom pipelines.* Collaborate with architects, operators, and data engineers to ensure secure and efficient modernization patterns.Hands-on experience developing or operating on IBM mainframes (z/OS).* Proficiency in one or more mainframe languages: COBOL, PL/I, HLASM, JCL, etc.* Experience deploying workloads to a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).* Experience leveraging LLMs and coding agents in software development workflows.* Preferred Qualifications* Familiarity with Code-as-Data and structured intermediate representation (IR) concepts.* Experience parsing or analyzing source grammars(ANTLR4, Tree-Sitter, recursive descent, etc.).* Experience with modernization frameworks such as AWS Blu Age or AWS Mainframe Modernization (Transform for z/OS).* Experience with CI/CD pipelines,IaC(CloudFormation/Terraform), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift).* Understanding of legacy data integration (DB2, VSAM, IMS) with modern cloud data stores.* Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns, vector databases, and agentic orchestration for code analysis pipelines.* About UsSlalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact. Compensation and BenefitsSlalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.The target pase salary range for Senior Principal in East Bay, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley is $203,000-$281,000. For all other slalom locations in the US, the target base salary range for Senior Principal is $171,000-$236,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities.